Kola definitions

kō'lə
Any of several tropical African evergreen trees of the genus Cola, especially C. acuminata or C. nitida, cultivated for their reddish fragrant nutlike seeds, which contain caffeine and theobromine. The seeds are chewed as a stimulant and yield an extract used in pharmaceuticals and as a flavoring in foods and beverages.
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A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown nuts containing source of cola extract.
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A nut of this tree.
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Origin of kola

Of West African origin Temne kɔ̄la kola nut

Sentence Examples

  • The kola tree is also indigenous.

  • from the mouth of Kola Bay.

  • Wiklund; a dictionary of Russian Lappish, or the Kola dialect (1891), by A.

  • Of this class are the swampy plateaus of the Kola peninsula, sloping gently S.

  • Finland and on the Kola peninsula, and the Samoyedes in Archangel and W.

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